Summary AQA A Level Psychology- The Multi Store Model

MultiStore Model
-


Atkinson and Shiffrin (1960)
Calso known as the modal model) Consolidation
- LINEAR
Environmental PROCESS
stimme
-
sister intenan
it
specificin nee emera
ifwe view ↓ Unlimited

10-50
Unlimited capacities
unlimited
Echoic seconds
semantic
visual and auditory 7 -2
+ items

Auditory / Acoustic
Duration -0.5 secs


Capacity
refers information a memory store can store.
how much
to

Duration refers to how long information can be held in a memory store.
Coding is the
process of changing information from
the environmentto store it in memory.
↳the way in which info is stored
process memories in the

↓ Same way a computer processes information.

George Miller
suggested
thatwe can retain 7+-2items in our short term memory
non declarative
also called memory
Arm
memory
-


split two
into types:implicit and explicit - also called declarative memory

partof our consciences
↳memories
not that we
consciously
↳ formed try remember and recall
to
from behaviour
Procedural memory is a type of implicitmemory -
we do not
consciously recall it
Lostores information of how to
do things


Explicitmemory has to the
do with storage of facts and we have

experienced. ↓
event
semantic episodic